Each month, Kiala will teach you how to make your own handmade art journal, give you prompts, tips, and techniques for filling the pages, and bring in guest artists, like myself, to share their take on the themes and prompts, and their own art journaling process.

To kick off this amazing course, Kiala has created a book for December and asked each guest artist to give her a challenge to complete during the month! The Journey Within is going to be a fun adventure for all of us who love handmade journals and finding the joy in our journaling practice.

And today is my challenge for the December Blog-Hop!

Here’s what I asked Kiala to do:

You are invited to paint a loose, fun portrait as follows...

1. Choose a photo or selfie of yourself or someone else, to use as reference

2. Select one brush that is larger than what you normally tend to use, and 5 colors that feel wild or delicious to you today

3. Set a timer for fifteen minutes and in that time paint a playful portrait using only those 5 colors and one brush. Just have fun & keep moving color - don't worry what or who it looks like!

What about you? Are you ready to make 12 of your own handmade journals in 2016 - and maybe start filling them up, too?